U.S. winners of the 39th annual Student Academy Awards are in: ten students from nine schools have been chosen in Alternative, Animation, Documentaries and Narrative categories. The winners will join Foreign Film category winners (from Germany and the UK) in Los Angeles for a week of industry activities. An awards ceremony on June 9 will declare the category placements.

You can "follow the journeys" of how each of the winners got to this stage here. Details on the free and open public ceremony are here.

The winners are (listed alphabetically by film title in each category):

Alternative

"The Reality Clock," Amanda Tasse, University of Southern California*

Animation

"Eyrie," David Wolter, California Institute of the Arts

"The Jockstrap Raiders," Mark Nelson, University of California, Los Angeles

"My Little Friend," Eric Prah, Ringling College of Art and Design

Documentary

"Dying Green," Ellen Tripler, American University

"Hiro: A Story of Japanese Internment," Keiko Wright, New York University